I really hope this information has helped you make sound, safe, risk-minimized, and well-informed convergence decisions. But when it comes right down to it, it’s really all about one thing: THE VALUE.

Thus, before I go to the street level view of HP Converged Infrastructure solutions, I want to inject some examples of how real HP customers are benefitting from convergence. And, do so by reinforcing the fact that the “one-size-fits-all” approach does not exist (unlike the marketing hype other vendors are eagerly selling). HP Converged Infrastructure allows you to simplify and align your applications to the business at your own pace by making the most efficient use of IT, facility, and staff resources.

HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio – at-a-glance

To illustrate this point, I’ve included several HP customer examples highlighting how they have quickly gained convergence value through turnkey Converged Systems or through smaller technology building block projects all based on decisions that are driven from an App-Centric position.

Fortescue Metals Group is one of the world’s largest producers of iron ore — supplying its products around Asia and Japan. Their old data center was full of siloed and piecemeal solutions. They needed IT that could accommodate massive growth, deliver solutions quicker with simpler management, and the ability to easily scale as the business grows. Fortescue implemented the HP CloudSystem Matrix Infrastructure-as-a-Service private cloud solution at their corporate headquarters to meet these objectives. A snap-shot of anticipated benefits includes:

Predict their IT costs with a utility consumption model

Provision servers 98 % faster

Provide greater business continuity and resiliency

Decrease internal administration to focus on business growth with a pay-as –you go model

CenterBeam delivers enterprise IT services to midsize businesses in the form of managed services, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Reliability and high customer satisfaction are critical. CenterBeam chose the HP VirtualSystem because of its flexibility. One of the big reasons they moved to HP Converged Infrastructure was to enable shared services, gain agility, lower costs, and increase cloud service competitiveness. A snap-shot of anticipated benefits includes:

Ten times more storage throughput than another vendor, 65 % reduction in the chief architect’s storage administration time so that he can focus on more valuable projects

HP Virtual Connect provides a 50 % cost savings versus a competitor

The solution helped CenterBeam exceed their customer satisfaction goals and their uptime goals of 99.995 %

Hostworks is an Australian market leader in complex webhosting, peak demand management, high transaction websites, and video streaming. They were looking for a computing solution that was able to scale up and down quickly to support the elastic computer requirements of its clients. It conducted an extensive evaluation of solutions based on track record, technical fit to purpose, and commercial sizing of proposed solution. They chose HP Converged Infrastructure solutions. A snap-shot of anticipated benefits includes:

Priceline.com is one of the world’s largest online hotel reservation and travel services. Their IT team was faced with deploying more servers than they had power or room for. HP Converged Infrastructure technologies helped them both avoid a costly data center expansion and gave them a modern technology platform to stay clearly aligned with its business strategy. A snap-shot of anticipated benefits includes:

Doubling of their compute density while shrinking their infrastructure footprint by 65%

Commerz Direktservice GmbH in Duisburg, Germany, provides call center services and problem resolution to customers of Commerzbank AG, the second-largest bank in Germany. Following a merger, Commerz Direktservice provided its call center employees with virtual desktops to improve customer service and IT efficiency. They implemented HP Converged Infrastructure technologies as the basis for their cost-effective VDI solution. A snap-shot of anticipated benefits includes:

34,000 hours of productivity time reclaimed annually

50 % reduction in cost to provide compute resources to employees

35 % less power usage, further reducing costs

40 to 60 % less IT staff time required to support call center operations

50 % less rack space required to host VDI

30 % reduction in help-desk tickets

Remember, all the values in each customer story are not HP reported benefits – they are the actual values / numbers reported by the customer.